Asian Literary Voices
20 entries in the Asian Literary Voices compendium.
Sanmao (writer)Taiwanese writer and translator known for autobiographical works and The Stories of the Sahara.Sei ShōnagonHeian court lady and author of The Pillow Book, as translated by Arthur Waley.Shen CongwenChinese writer of native soil literature who later became a historian of artifacts.Shin Kyung-sookSouth Korean novelist and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize.Shūsaku EndōJapanese Catholic author of Silence.Su ShiSong dynasty literatus, exiled official, and prolific artist.Takeo ArishimaJapanese novelist and central figure of the Shirakaba literary groupTakiji KobayashiJapanese writer of proletarian literature, died under torture.Takizawa BakinEdo-period novelist and author of the epic Hakkenden.Taslima NasrinWriter and speaker at the 2016 Kerala Literature Festival.Ueda AkinariJapanese author of ghost stories and yomihon masterpieces.Wu Cheng'enMing-era writer traditionally credited with the classic novel Journey to the West.Xiao HongChinese writer of the Republican era, known for tragic lyrical prose.Yasunari KawabataFirst Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.Yasushi InoueJapanese writer of historical and autobiographical fiction.Yi Cheong-junSouth Korean novelist of the 4.19 Generation.Yukio MishimaJapanese novelist and far-right activist who died by seppuku.Abd al-Rahman al-MajdoubMoroccan poet, Sufi and mystic whose verses became proverbs across the Maghreb.Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazzAbbasid prince, poet, and one-day caliph.Adi ibn Zayd6th-century Arab Christian poet and Sasanian court secretary.
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